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...early summer U.S. soldiers scrambling after Taliban remnants along the craggy mountains of southeastern Afghanistan made a surprising discovery. Among the gang of suspected Taliban agents they nabbed were three men who, it emerged in interrogations, were Pakistani army officers. Authorities in Pakistan clapped the three in a military brig; an official from military intelligence called them "mavericks." But the news of their capture alongside enemy fighters underscored a persistent issue in Washington and Kabul: Whose side, exactly, is Pakistan...
...will look at times like we are still at war." BRIG. GENERAL DANIEL HAHN, Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army's 5th Corps, on the challenges of establishing stability in Iraq...
...Don’t put somebody in the military brig without charging them,” Reno said...
...jailed indefinitely, without charge, if they are suspected of terrorism. The FBI can now investigate American citizens without probable cause of their involvement with a crime. And the mere accusation of being an “enemy combatant” is enough to land you in a Navy brig without access to a lawyer...
...professors running the gamut from war hawk to peacenik have continued to sound off since the war began—ranging from retired Brig. Gen. John Reppert, executive director for research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, to Lecturer on History and Literature Timothy P. McCarthy ’93. Reppert advocates stronger military action in Iraq, while McCarthy is a vocal opponent...